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There would be costly visas for people’s two-week holiday in Spain and a loss of access to health and education services in other European countries on the same basis as that of the citizens resident in those countries.
I was pleased to note that the cabinet secretary confirms in his response, dated 18 October 2012, to the committee’s stage 1 report that the council’s role in policy making will be “essentially advisory”.
Will he also undertake to publish the minutes of meetings, when that is appropriate, rather like the Bank of England does? Would that not be a great move forward in transparency and openness in the relationship between the two Governments?
I also wonder what makes the Scottish Government different from local government, the financial sector, the banks and the construction industry in Scotland, all of which think that the Scottish futures trust has no future.
I have asked David Thorburn—the chief operating officer of the Clydesdale Bank—in a personal capacity to lead the industry group to take forward that initiative.
An individual might not have access to their own funding if they are leaving a relationship. Their money might be in joint bank accounts and it would be quite easy for someone with internet banking to remove that money very quickly and thus stop them leaving.
We should put that amount into the context of the figures that we have heard about in the past month for banking bail-outs and in the pre-budget report.
His response is as follows: The following table gives the maximum prisoner population during each calendar year from 1998 to 2008 and the date on which this maximum occurred.